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I have never seen The Wizard of Oz. Ever. I’m not particularly proud of or ashamed by this; by now, I basically refuse to see it out of spite, because it never fails to shock people when I casually mention “I’ve never seen The Wizard of Oz.”
Why I have never seen The Wizard of Oz:
a) my parents were of the ilk that believed if you’ve seen something once there was no need to see it ever again, so it was never left on in my presence
b) even as I child I was suspicious of musicals. Like Homer, my impulse is “They’re fake and phony/And totally wrong”
c) as a child I was extremely suspicious of anything dumbed down for children, i.e. Disney, and The Wizard of Oz appeared Disneyesque to me at the time—antiseptic, preachy, predictable.
As an adult I realise the film doesn’t deserve to be so cavalierly dismissed, but I’d still rather watch The Bullwinkle Show.
